Lewin, at 09:59 on Aug 15 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

BG> I'm also more than a little concerned with Lew's extremely zealoty
BG> attitude towards OS/2, especially after his having used it for only a

LE> Ah, you missed the point : The point is not to promote OS/2. The point is 
LE> to de-promote (!?) Microslut products.

After such disgusting pieces of shit as MS-DOS 4.0 and Windows 3.0, I doubt
that MS need any help in "de-promoting" their products at all,
and I fully expect Win95 to continue with this fine tradition.

LE> OS/2 happens to be, IMO, a good product.

No need to qualify that statement with "IMO".  OS/2 _is_ a fine product.

LE> It is also the only major competitor against Microslut for the 
LE> iAPx86 desktop. It is also readily available. It also has an entrenched 
LE> group of supporters, many of whom are well beyond hysteria point.

And it's still being nobbled by an absolute dearth of really good quality
native applications, even now, and whilst I applaud IBM for including the
WinOS2 code, it also means that programmers don't need to code for the OS/2
API, not while OS/2 runs most Winapps just fine.  Sort of an unintentional
foot-shot, I suppose.  Don't expect that to change any time soon either.

LE> Logical conclusion - The success of OS/2 is an objective which, though not 
LE> strictly convergent with my own, is currently one of the better lines of 
LE> attack I can pursue in the quest for the nemesis of Microsoft.

Just keep taking those little yellow pills, Lew.  :)

Regards, Bill
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